Model Railroading Blog and News

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 19, 2018 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Carl Wessel will discuss how he got onto the Kankakee Belt and a bit of it's history, the materials he has to base the layout and operation...

Joe's freelanced HO scale East Bluff Terminal Railroad models Illinois along the Mississippi river bluffs in 1971. 95' of single-track mainline follows the around-the-walls layout design with a grain complex peninsula, a duckunder at the doorway, and a 13-track single-ended staging ya...

Members of the Gateway Division of the NMRA and the St. Louis Chapter of the NRHS reached across the vast and polarizing isle of railroad related interest camps, put away our differences and embarked on a joint adventure. A day of railroad-related activities at the Iron Spike Railroad...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 19, 2018 at Oliver C. Joseph Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAM, 3795 IL-15 Belleville, IL 62226. Owner Brad Joseph has arranged loan of a display designed and built by the Milwaukee Country Historical Society...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, January 15, 2018 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Gary Brandenburger, D.Sc., will return to follow-up on last year’s discussion on Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Gary will recap what are L...

The Arborway, T.T. & Northwestern Railroad is one of the largest private miniature railroads in North America. It is located on Woodsvalley Farm near Steelville, Missouri. It was the dream of investment banker John R. Woods with five miles of track, two tunnels, one wood trestle, auto...

On December 16, 2017 the Gateway Division hosted their first “Model Railroading 101” class open to the public at the Museum of Transportation. Greg Gramlich demonstrated how to build a simple layout using Bachmann EZ-Track on a 42"x60” piece of 2" thick extruded foam board. The hands-...

Members of the Gateway Division NMRA and St. Louis NRHS recently visited the Iron Spike Model Train Museum. The museum was established in 2016 to honor and preserve the railroad heritage of the Midwest. This dream of a few model train enthusiasts, with the support of dedicated volunte...